PROPOSAL TEMPLATE

Building Social Base

OPEN SOCIETY INITIATIVE FOR EUROPE
2019
 Proposal Template—2019

Please complete the questions on this application form in no more than 15 pages.

Application Information

Organization’s name Please enter the full name of the organization seeking support.

Project Coordinator/ Provide title, first name, last name, and contact details (telephone,
e-mail, fax).
contact person

Address Use the full legal address of the organization, including postcode
and country.

Legal status Such as association, NGO, foundation, or charity; please include

registration number (if applicable)

Name of Executive Or the person authorized to sign contracts.

Director

Organization
telephone number

Organization e-mail
address

Organization Please indicate the address of your website and any other
website address webpages related to your organization (such as Twitter, Facebook,
etc.). Do not hesitate to provide information on the number of
visits, followers, products that have been downloaded from your
website, materials used by others, other websites/articles referring
to yours, etc.

Description of In approximately 100 words, provide a brief history of the

organization organization, its expertise in the project area, the number of paid
and unpaid staff, and their key qualifications. Please indicate the
composition of the board and other relevant information about
governance.

PROJECT INFORMATION

Project name Please indicate the project name in English, also. If you are
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New project or Please state here also whether the application is for a new
renewal project or for a renewal of support.

Purpose of the grant The grant purpose should complete the sentence, “The purpose
of this grant is ...”

Country/region of A list of the countries or regions that would benefit from the
benefit grant.

Term Begin date/end date (DD/MM/YYYY–DD/MM/YYYY)

BUDGET (in USD)

N.B. Please also fill out the Excel template provided. If you already have a budget in a
different format, you may attach that, as well.

Total project Enter the amount of the total project budget for which the
budget in USD organization is seeking support in U.S. dollars.

Amount Please note that the maximum OSF support is 30 percent of the
requested from NGO’s budget (the total expenditure of the last fiscal year – 2018)
OSF

in USD

Applicant’s total Enter the amount of the organization’s total budget for the current
organizational fiscal year. This allows OSF to gain some context about the size of
budget (incomes the organization. Please list your major funders and indicate their
and contribution to the organizational budget (in percent). Please add
expenditure) incomes, expenses, assets, and liabilities, as in the NGO’s latest
balance sheet.
Partnerships and Who are the partners for this project? Please list ALL partners (not
budgetary only financial partners but all partners involved in the project).
considerations Is OSF in-kind support (for example, organizational support and
trainings) rather than direct financial support under consideration?
Are there co-funding or cost-sharing arrangements? Will
implementation rely on coalitions or other outside collaborators? If
so, what are the budgetary implications?

PROJECT SUMMARY
Description of program/project for which funding is sought (Project Note)
Maximum of 250 words to include the geographic focus, project objectives, brief project
description, and requested grant period. This project note should provide sufficient

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information about the project for a reader who is not previously familiar with its
activities to become fully informed about what is planned.

PROJECT ANALYSIS
(The structure and sequence of issues to be covered in this section do not need to follow the
same order as below. Please follow your own internal logic if it differs as long as each of the
issues is addressed.)

1. Problem statement
Explain here the problem that you seek to address as it relates to your
organization’s sustainability and efforts to connect with its organic support base.
The problem statement should reflect on how the limitations of broad social
support affects the organization’s ability to achieve its goals.

2. Context and background

How does the operational environment affect the core professional activity,
sustainability, legitimacy, and social base of the organization? What are the main
challenges in terms of fundraising, communication, and building social base?

3. Organization description
What are the scope of the NGO’s work and its major ongoing activities?
Summarize the organization’s history, mission or objectives, principal areas of
work, and current size and structure. Why is the organization important? What is
its added value? What is the place of the organization in the field in which it
operates? How does your organization works toward gender justice, equality and
equity for other vulnerable social groups (characterized by race, ethnicity, social
class, age etc.) in your field? Do not hesitate to indicate how your organization
has been recognized by others, how your materials are used, etc. What are the
organization’s main goals in the next few years and what does it expect to
accomplish? What is the staff and/or lay leadership of the organization and why
are they qualified to advance the organization’s goals?

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4. Core funding
Describe why core funding is necessary for the organization and how this part of
the funding would be used to contribute to sustainability, legitimacy and social
base of the organization. Explain the goals, activities, and expected outcomes with
reflections on the overall medium-term sustainability of the organization. What is
the scope of the NGO’s work and its major ongoing activities and how does the
planed constituency building efforts correspond with the organization’s overall
mission and objectives? How could the NGO’s structure and institutional capacity
be strengthened? What are the capacity-building needs of the staff? What are the
main actual and prospective sources of support for the organization?

5. Building Support Base and Engaging with Constituencies

5.1 Building support base

Describe the broader support base of the organization, including main target
groups, circle of volunteers, social media followers, support base, and donors
(such as individual and microdonors, corporate partners and sponsors). Please
explain what you know about the composition of your constituencies particularly in
terms of gender and other social identities as well as their motivation to support
your organization (e.g how does your organization seeks to advance gender
equality within your field to attract women supporters?). How do you differentiate
among different groups of your support base in terms of their level of engagement
and modes of contribution (for example, circle of volunteers, microdonors, and in-
kind supporters)? Please describe the organization’s past efforts to enhance its
social base and reach out to different social groups, particularly different groups of
women and other gender minorities. Please provide reflections on previous
obstacles that prevented the organization from expanding its social support base.

5.2 Target groups and outreach strategy

Please define the new target groups the organization aims to reach throughout the
project. Describe the organization’s strategy to strengthen ties to these target
groups, increase social support, and build wider constituencies. Please explain
how your strategy will advance your efforts to attract diverse audiences with
particular attention to different groups of women.

5.3 Objectives and goals

Describe the main areas of improvement in which your organization is seeking
enhancement, with particular attention to the expansion of its support base, and the
communication and fundraising strategy. Please describe the organization’s
capacity to carry out developments in these areas (that is, how they will be
financially and administratively supported).

5.4 Strategy and methodology

Please describe how you will work to achieve these objectives (for example,
through capacity building, structural changes, or strategy development). How do

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the organization’s efforts to strengthen its social base relate to its professional
work? Please explain how the chosen methodology reflects on the different needs,
interest and motivation of different target groups particularly different social
groups of women?

5.5 Activities and timeline

Please provide a summary and an exact timeline of the planned activities (such as
training and meetings) and outputs (such as work plans, strategies produced, and
how they will be implemented) and indicate when and by whom (fixed staff,
temporary staff, or external assistance) they will be completed.

5.6 Expected outcomes

Describe the change you are expecting to see regarding your organization’s ties to
its support base, ideally with details, as well as expected short-/medium- and long-
term outcomes. Please specify how the project will allow your organization to
engage with different social groups of women as supporters? How do you expect
that the project will affect the organization’s ability to increase its support from
local sources?

5.7 Indicators of progress and success for strategic learning

By the mid-point of the project, how would you measure your success (the fact that
you are achieving your objectives/goals or outcomes)? In qualitative and
quantitative terms, how would you determine that the project is on track? Please
link these indicators to the realistic outcomes set out before. At the end of your
project, how will you assess the final impact and measure its success? Please
provide exact indicator numbers.

5.8 Risk analysis

Explain here if you foresee any potential difficulties, obstacles, or problems that
may prevent you from meeting your goals and how you will address them.

6. Staff and management’s involvement

Describe the staff and leadership of the organization (you can refer to the short
biographies attached) with specific attention to women’s and other gender minorities’
role within the organization and management structures. Please explain their role in
building social base and embeddedness and why they are qualified to advance the
organization’s goals. Please specify the leadership’s involvement in the organization’s
efforts to engage with supportive audiences in general and in the current constituency
building project in particular.

7. Conflict of Interest
If applicable

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8. Security and other concerns

If applicable, state here any security concerns you may foresee.

9. Final statement
I, the undersigned, certify that the information given on this form is correct and
that I am legally entitled to represent the applicant organization.

Electronic/scanned signature:

Name and Position/Title:

Date: